Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Incomprehensible and difficult are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Incomprehensible" instead an adjective "Difficult".
Nearby Word: difficulty
Incomprehensible
Incomprehensible adjective - Impossible to understand.
Difficult and incomprehensible are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Difficult" instead an adjective "Incomprehensible".
Nearby Words: incomprehension, incomprehensibility
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- complex and difficult
- complex and incomprehensible
- deep and difficult
- deep and incomprehensible
- profound and difficult
- profound and incomprehensible
- hard and difficult
- hard and incomprehensible
- abstruse and difficult
- abstruse and incomprehensible
- involved and difficult
- involved and incomprehensible
- unfathomable and difficult
- unfathomable and incomprehensible
Both words in one sentence
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Since her "speech" is now incomprehensible it's difficult to know which type she is, but possibly a Type II (she seems too aware of the outside world to be a Type I).
Source: Who Even Needs a Brain? -
Strange-Syntax Speaker: Several of the lesser demons speak in a nigh-incomprehensible dialect that can be difficult to understand.
- True Artis Incomprehensible : Both in-universe, with the modern dance routines, and the difficult writing style used to tell the story.
Source: Literature / The Kid
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